Affiliation: Thought Pyramid Arts Centre, Abuja, Nigeria; Narrativiti Community Interest Company, London, England.
Location: Abuja, Nigeria and London, England.
Contact: phoenixcdc@outlook.com
Research Description:
An experienced Cultural Manager and Educator, with in-depth knowledge of Contemporary African and African Diaspora Visual Arts and with extensive contacts in that field. An excellent communicator, skilled at facilitating the exchange of ideas.
Currently works as Adjunct Head of Education at The Thought Pyramid Arts Centre, Abuja. Nigeria. Shaun set up Narrativiti Community Interest Company {CIC} in 2005, in the UK. It is an educational outreach service advocating, memorialising, and educating diverse communities about African Diaspora cultural expression. The over-arching aim of Narrativiti CIC is to:
Advance public education by promoting the work of Diaspora artists, in the Narrativiti multi-arts showcase –‘Orature’.
Promote well-being in Diaspora communities, through the provision of services and products that integrate art, health and technology.
Provide a range of commercial activities, products and services that will support the creative arts and sustain us as a creative industryn
Research Keywords: African Diaspora Art and Culture; Art Education; Curating; Contemporary African art consulting.
Affiliation: Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham University
Location: Nottingham
Contact: norma@nottinhamnewscentre.com
Research Decription:
Norma Gregory (BA, MA, PGCE) was born in Nottingham in 1969, the daughter of Jamaican migrants who came to Nottingham in the early 1960s. Educated in London and Nottingham (St Mary’s University, Twickenham; The Institute of Education; University of London and the University of Nottingham) Norma Gregory has worked as a teacher, editor/ writer and researcher. She uses her love of African history and Literature (in the British context) to produce community educational projects. She is currently project coordinator of the Nottingham Carnival Archive in association with Tuntum Housing Association, Nottingham.
Through her community interest company, Nottingham News Centre, Norma Gregory has sponsored many events and projects including the first Blue Heritage Plaque to a person of African descent in Nottingham, dedicated to the entrepreneur George Africanus (c1763-1834) in October 2014.
Norma Gregory has written and published articles and academic papers concerning her topics of interest: Black British literary history, African Caribbean British history, Black British writers and personalities, black history in Nottingham and the Midlands, literacy and education, Black feminist theology/literature as well as producing community news from the black communities in Nottingham. She is commitment to community development and an advocate for equality and inclusion through education and publishing.
Research Keywords: Black History, Black British History, African/Caribbean History in the UK, Nottingham, Literature, Publishing, Biography.
Countries and Regions of Interest: UK, Africa, Caribbean, USA.
Publications:
Jamaicans in Nottingham, Narratives and Reflections (London: Hansib Publications, 2015).
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